Introduction to International Relations

Yanıt Açıklaması: The international system after 1815 was called the Concert of Europe.  The correct answer is B. The Holy Alliance was a conservative agreement between three dominant Powers_i.e. Austria, Prussia and Russia_to keep the monarchical nature of the international system. The Westphalian System refers to the previous period before The Concert of Europe. The Long Peace refers to the time period lasted until the outbreak of World War I. Congress of Vienna was held 1814–15 to agree the settlement of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars and marked a return to a Europe composed of monarchies.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The chapter states that power is the main interest of the political realism and its relation to human nature; that realism recognizes interests of a state; and that political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action

Yanıt Açıklaması: Freedom from power, domination, and the influence of others over a person or a society is called “emancipation.”

Yanıt Açıklaması: Anarchy is one of the two principles underlying neorealism. It is considered as an ordering principle because neorealism does not recognize a power that is superior to states.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years’ War in 1648 . This peace agreement formed the basic characteristics of modern international politics: the rise of the territorially-conceived sovereign state and the beginning of the state-system in Europe. Also, it led to the development of crucial instruments like diplomacy, international congresses, and international law that still constitute the core of International Relations. The correct answer is D.

Yanıt Açıklaması: One significant result of the French Revolution was the spread of the concepts of nationalism and nation-states that were to shape the developments for the19 th and 20 th centuries.

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Yanıt Açıklaması: The positivist position views theory as constitutive: “the existence of a state can only begin with its formal or implied recognition by other states. The constitutive theory of recognition insists that only the positive act of recognition creates the new international legal personality” (Oxford Reference Online, 2017).